Hacking Social Justice Issues

• Civic hackathons

Find Out Who You Can Vote For

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis
• Watchdogging government

We are a civic tech organization fostering courtroom openness, social justice and citizen engagement in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open justice
• Trial monitoring

CheckIT is a flexible, event-based mobile inspection tool designed by VPUU to improve the delivery of essential services in Cape Town’s informal settlements.

• informal settlements

• Issue reporting

Find out who is contesting in your Ward

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard
• Government transparency

Spotlighting Illegal Transfers to Curb Corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Social and financial connections

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

• diaspora

• Peer networks

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Courses

Villageois 2.0 est une association qui a pour objectif de sensibiliser les citoyens des différentes localités de la Guinée sur les avantages et risques des TIC.

• Citizen Engagement

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open justice
• Trial monitoring

Voter information portal for the 2021 Ethiopian election

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

At the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.

• No poverty
• Life on land

Highlighting modernization initiatives from legislatures around the world

• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Newsletters

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research
• User research groups

New America Chicago is a nonpartisan policy innovation lab based at The Chicago Community Trust.

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.

Bypass censorship by disguising web traffic. A feature in Tor Browser, Onion Browser, and Orbot.

• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Datamuse is a collection of websites, mobile apps, and APIs designed to help people create and communicate more effectively.

• Open knowledge

Wholly embeddable voter registration, polling place lookup, reminders, absentee, and election date tools for your organization.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Find your polling place
• Voter registration

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Government transparency

Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

• Open knowledge

Citizen Connect is a non-partisan platform dedicated to helping Americans right, left and center find ways to heal our divides and strengthen this great nation.

• Polarization

Find when something was said in a video or podcast with AI-powered SayWhen.us

• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

This free app includes information on 100 Senators, 50 State Attorney Generals, 50 Governors, 426 Congressional reps by state. And 1,964 State Senators and 5,443 State House Reps.

Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broader communities.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

Eyebeam artists fellowship

• Fellowships
• Artistic interventions

A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. It uses LLMs to create granular chapters that readers can skim and share.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Public meetings

The Program for Public Consultation was established to develop the methods and theory of public consultation and to conduct public consultations.

Bridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.

• Participatory democracy
• Polarization

What might it sound like if a reporter in rural Missouri partnered with a reporter in New York City to together explore contentious issues and uplift common ground?

• students

• Media
• Journalism
• Polarization

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

We’re reimagining the supply chain of social care for the new era.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Access social benefits

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Democratic Innovations
• Policy simulators

The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Meet the others
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• In-person meetings

Beloved Community offers a number of consulting services to support organizations and communities to drive change within organizations by providing teams with custom coaching and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Civil society research outfits

It can be tough for government decision makers to find current, reliable information on tried-and-tested technologies. The Exchange solves that problem by serving as a one-stop shop, featuring over 500 digital tools, products and opportunities for government technology decision makers, IT developers, and product vendors.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Civic X Syllabus is a roadmap to learning about civic research, civic data, civic tech, and civic design.

• Reading lists

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy

City, State, Federal & Public Sector Jobs

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

• Peer networks
• Digital transformation
• Data governance

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

• guides

• Building inside government
• Public Private Partnerships

Empowering organisers and activists with mapping tools and data enrichment ✊

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Mapping tools

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization

The Climate Data JLN will surface key data governance innovations that will enable climate-relevant data to be more accessible and useful for frontline governments and communities.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Data governance

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science...

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning